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We both bypass the hotel breakfast which is priced at 35€ for the two of us, so we go to one of two locals that sells breakfast in this town. We end up with a meat and cheese plate with 4 buns and two lattes. Not quite what we had in mind. But we end up making sandwiches with the extra meat and cheese left over. We walk to the salt museum and …

We left from Vienna's impressive and brand new Hauptbahnhof station enroute to Hallstatt. Comfortably seated in first class, we have time to have a coffee and catch up on the blog. However, we have to change trains at a smaller station and once on we have one more hour to get to this picturesque town. Then it's on a small ferry to get us to the …

We have just come back from a lovely trip up to Lake Konigssee, and a boat trip down the lake to St Bartholoma. The lake is nestled between the mountains, and is 602m above sea level with an average depth of 150m. It is the cleanest lake in Germany, with the water being pure enough to be classified ...

... of Salzburg . Truth be told it's a great idea if someone checks the opening times of such places. We got off the bus at the wrong stop, walked the 1km up the Alps to the gorge to discover it was in fact closed. To make the most out of our journey we then proceeded to climb down to the gorge off the side of ...

... cave in the world!?). The Ice Cave was amazing, with temperatures dropping to -2 degrees C (below 30 F) It was something we'd never seen before. Northern Europe has certainly more of a modern feel compared to Portugal, Spain, and Italy. Almost everyone speaks English as a second language, bathrooms are finally properly equipped, and public transportation is more modern and efficient. We even got to ride on one of those "James Bond" (as we called it) trains where you get your ...